Special fastening for ends of laces



R. A. BIBARD. SPECIAL FASTENING FOR ENDS 0F LACES.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 3. I920.

Patented Nov. 22, 1921.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RENE AUGUST'E BIBARD, 0F BELLEVUE, FRANCE.

SPECIAL FASTENDI G FOR ENDS OF LACES.

Application filed April 3,

To all whom it may concern. 1

Be it known that 1, Rain Anon-51 n BIBARD, a citizen of the French Republic, residing at Bellevue, 17 Rue des Capucines, Seine et Oise, in State of France, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Special Fastenings for Ends of Laces; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The ends of woven laces are generally fixed by a small metallic tag with a slit and notches, compressed to penetrate the texture. The tag is to prevent the texture of the lace unraveling and to give to its end sufficient stiffness to enable one to pass it easily through eyelets.

Catching and scratching are the inconveniences of these tags however well adjusted may be the tag as there is always a certain want 'of continuity between the same and the material.

In use the projecting metallic edge meets two obstacles, which it does not always do without damage :the edge of the eyelet which pulls the tag off, and the stockings which it catches andtears. The latter accident happens especially with ladies boots having eyelets all the way up, necessitating the drawing out of the lace through the first eyelets. The lace is generally drawn out by pulling both ends of the same simultaneously; this movement causes a rapid passage of the tag through the eyelets and the brisk slippin along the leg thus scratching the stocking. If the stocking is a silk one, the tearing of a single stitch causes serious damage, often necessitating throwing 1t away, thus causing through the metallic tag, loss of money, which may be appreciable.

The obiect of my invention is to produce a device for the ends of laces, around or flat, previously rolled or doubled up lengthwise, which device is applied at both ends and is made up of stitchings and bindings avoiding the above mentioned inconveniences and nevertheless maintaining the necessary rigidity of the end of the lace for its convenient use.

This fastening is essentially made up of one or several stitches passing through the round or rolled end of the lace and made Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 22, 1921.

1920. Serial No. 371,048.

with a flexible thread of animal or vegetable nature such as silk, cotton, flax, wool, hemp or raphia and a series of loops wound with the same thread around such end, so as to protect the stitches and also cover and tighten the two crossed ends of the thread. The whole forms with a single thread a closed circuit which by its windings tightens and stiffens the end of the lace fastened to it, protecting its own fastening against wear and damage and also protects and tightens the crossing of its two extremities, by which it is closed upon itself.

The annexed drawing represents by way of example one method of applying the invention and constituting a flexible tag of stitched and bound thread.

The figures are drawn to an enlarged scale showing in Figure 1 one end of the lace rolled up on itself and stitched through with double stitches with the thread forming a loop beyond the stitches and in Fig. 2 the thread rolled around the stitches and the beginning of the loop which it partly covers and through which it passes and in Fig. 3 the finished tag. This figure shows in a front View (part of the winding being removed) the locking of the extremities of the thread.

The figures show the successive operations for the establishment of the fastening.

The thread 1 (Fig. 1) after passing through the lace forms a loop a which is laid lengthwise over the extremity of the lace 3. One of the two ends 1 laid on the lace is intended to be drawn through the loop for the completing of the binding and only needs sufiicient length for holding; the other 4;, left longer is intended for the winding. The loop may be turned and laid back ward, toward the body of the lace, or on the other hand forward as shown in the figure.

In either of the two directions or better still in both the looped thread passes through the lace by one or more stitches. If the stitches are made in the two directions of the loop, it is convenient if the return stitch a is close to or even against the point 25 where the first thread comes through.

The means of securing this fastening are numerous, it can be achieved with a single thread as shown clearly in Fig. 1. It can also be done with a loop previously formed. In this latter case, the thread is made into a loop before stitching and then passed into the needle previously fixed through the lace, near the top of the loop itself, which goes beyond the'needle by a short length. After the stitch or the several stitches are made, the needle and thread are drawn to 'free the loop leaving it the necessary length, then withdrawing the needle.

By forming the loop before stitching, a single drawing of the needle in a single direction is suiiicient to obtain the necessary disposition of the thread to enable working in the opposite direction necessary to obtain the look by which the fastening is completed.

. Also, it avoids stitching through the first thread with the return one, which prevents sliding of the thread to complete the fastening.

If it is desired not to stitch the return threadthrough the lace, it may simply be laid on it before stitching winding or be fixed by sliding it under the first thread between two stitches made by it.

Whatever kind of stitch is used, it must allow the thread to slide through the lace for final tightening. It must not have knots, at least in the part to be drawn. After having formed the loop, the end to be used for winding may be fixed at c to the lace by a tack.

After the first operation, that is to say, after the stitch is put through the lace and the 100 as shown in Fig. 1 the thread is ready 'or the winding. This winding can be made in two different ways-the lump formed by the extremity of the lace and the two threads flat on it can be held motionless and the thread wound around it as on a reel. It is preferable to fasten the end of the thread as shown in Fig. 1 by a tie, clip, or pincers, asat d and a rotative movement on its axis given to the lump, advancing it in the direction of the fastening point'of the thread winding around it. This last method is easier and produces a muchfirmer fastening.

After winding, the thread 4 is cut, its end is passed through'the loop 2, and the end of the thread 1 is pulled so as to draw beneath the winding, the crossing or look of the loop 2 and of the other loop 6 formed when drawing the thread till they reach the stitches. The ends may then be cut off.

Before cutting off the ends 1 and 4, they may be fixed one or both to the lace by a tack. By so doing, the tack before winding Fig. 1, may be omitted. But in this latter case, there would no longer be one or several stitches underneath the spiral wound covering, absolutely protected from wear and damage.

Besides, the penetrating of the lock or crossing of the threads, would no longer be automatically stoppedby the stitch in the middle of the fastening, this could only be done by guess work and the strength of-the fastening would not be so well secured.

By the above described operations the tag made by the thread stitches and wind ingis obtained as shown in Fig. 3.

The stitches and the wound fastening combined form a covering of regular and flexible spiral winding of the thread which cannot catch in the eyelet holes and get pulled or tear the stockings, this envelop in fact protectingits own fastening to the lace and also the crossing of the single ending of its circuit and constituting the tag.

lVhat is claimed is y r 1. Protecting means for the tag ends of laces comprising a binding thread passed through the end of the lacing and wound around said end with its ends concealed within the Wound portion of the binding thread. a

2. Means of the character set forth in claim 1 hereof wherein the binding thread is doubled before being passed through the lace to form a loop, and wherein the free end of the coiled binding thread is held within the coil, passed through the loop which is pulled tight to secure said end.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses. V

RENE AUGUSTE BIBARD. Witnesses: V

ERNST AILLY, SIDURAURNIA. 

